Published Library Resources

This virtual library holds a wide range of urban forestry resources including: research abstracts and full text journal articles, trade magazine articles, CDs, other technology transfer resources, books (or chapters of books), patents, ordinances, theses and dissertations, and conference proceedings.

Wildlife problems, human attitudes, and response to wildlife in the Syracuse, New York, metropolitan area

 

Microcomputer software for use in urban tree evaluation

 

Psychological value of urban trees: Measurement, meaning, and imagination

 

Effects of vegetation on building energy performance

 

When a storm strikes

 

Urban forestry practices in Illinois: Analysis of a survey

 

Save our shade: A guide to cost-sharing for oak wilt control in Texas

 

Protection and care of the urban forest

 

Forests in the city: The Montana experience

 

Stewardship of community rivers: The urban forester's view

 

Urban forestry: Planning and managing urban greenspaces

 

Variation in Streamwater Quality in an Urban Headwater Stream in the Southern Appalachians

 

Urban Forestry in North America

 

Ultraviolet Radiation, Human Health, and the Urban Forest

 

Trees and Planting: Getting the Roots Right

 

Taxonomy & Identification: Redbay ( Persea borbonia)

At the edge of streams, springs, and swamps hides the redbay tree. Redbay (Persea borbonia), with its evergreen aromatic leathery leaves, dark blue fruit hanging on into winter, and reddish bark is a jewel among trees. read more...

SIP: Voluntary Urban Forestry Programs (Washington DC-MD-VA)

 

Sensitivity of Red Maple Cultivars to Acute and Chronic Exposures of Ozone

 

RFP: Rapid Assessment of Tree Damage Following Natural Disasters

 

Recycling Municipal Trees

Discusses alternative strategies for urban "saw-timber". read more...

Recreational use value of Chandigarh city’s urban forestry

 

Q&A: Rapid Assessment of Tree Damage Following Natural Disasters

 

Proceedings of the 5th Southern Forestry and Natural Resources GIS Conference

 

Pollution mitigation and carbon sequestration by an urban forest

 

Pinus taeda loblolly pine

 

Pinus strobus: Eastern white pine

 

Pinus rigida: pitch pine

 

Pinus palustris: longleaf pine

 

Pinus glabra spruce pine

 

Pinus elliottii slash pine

 

Pest Matrix for Georgia’s Native Pines

 

Offsetting emissions: A business brief on the voluntary carbon market

Global carbon markets have doubled in size over the past year. Current estimates place regulated markets at US$21.5 billion and voluntary markets at about US$100 million for the first three quarters of 2006. And the prospects for continued growth in carbon markets are strong. read more...

Non-market economic valuation in developing countries: Role of participant observation method in CVM analysis

 

Improved methods for quantifying potential nutrient interception by riparian buffers

 

Georgia’s Native Pines (PINUS): General Information For Identification

 

Georgia Model Urban Forest

 

Georgia: A New Order -- Selected Demographic Trends Impacting Forest Resources Decision-Making

 

F&C Guide to Carbon Offsetting

A growing number of companies - including F&C - are choosing to offset their carbon emissions. But at the same time, questions are being raised about the intergrity of offsetting schemes. read more...

Energy Efficiency Through Trees Act (Discussion Draft)

Alliance or Community Trees (ACT) is working with Congresswoman Matsui (D-CA) to create a program in the Department of Energy (DOE) to help utilities and nonprofit organizations plant shade trees for energy efficiency. Modeled after Sacramento Municipal Utility District's successful partnership ... read more...

Direct and Indirect Impacts of Urbanization on Wetland Quality

 

Using urban forests for energy efficiency and carbon storage

 

Native American communities: The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin

 

Design and species selection to reduce urban heat island and conserve energy

 

Street tree performance tests of crabapple cultivars: Initial results

 

Computer applications to assist tree selection

 

Promoting trees in, and around, towns

 

Chlorophyll content and gas exchange characteristics of ten southern urban tree species

 

A Dutch elm disease resistant triploid elm

 

Ecological bases for selecting urban trees

 

Elimination of circling tree roots during nursery production

 

Transplanting experiments: What worked and what did not

 

Conservation biology and the urban forest

 

Urban soils: An overview and their future

 

Amsterdam Tree Soil

 

Plant establishment and root growth research at the Urban Horticulture Institute (Ithaca, NY)

 

Seasonal effects on transplantability of scarlet oak, green ash, Turkish hazelnut and tree lilac

 

Size, design, and management of tree planting sites

 

The social benefits of resident involvement in tree planting

 

Street tree establishment

 

Tree survey and inspection

 

Shade tree forestry: A quick look at trees and tree care in the urban environment

 

Planning concerns relating to urban nature settings: The role of size and other physical features

 

Urban forestry: A look at the worth of trees

 

A revolution in tree pruning: Applying a new tree biology

 

Community forestry in eastern Montana

 

The value of shade in Kalispell, Montana

 

Tree survival on wooded lots following home construction

 

Trees for the landscape: Selection and culture

 

Levels and patterns of urban park use

 

The positive values of urban parks

 

Tree maintenance. 6th edition

 

Perceived quality of urban parks and forests

 

The economic benefits and costs of urban parks: An overview

 

Urban parks as social settings: Visitors' perceptions of anti-social behavior and crowding

 

Standards for pruning of shade trees, guying of shade trees, fertilizing shade and ornamental trees, lightning protection installation systems for shade trees, standard for hydraulic sprayer calibration

 

Trends in urban forestry management

 

The street trees of Egypt

 

Urban forestry: A bibliography: Second supplement

 

Forestry: A community tradition

 

Tree detailing

Collection of graphic details for landscape contracts.

Dutch elm disease; cause and prevention

 

Tree care

 

Establishment and early maintenance

 

Elements and total concept of urban tree design

 

Management practices for urban woodlands in Milton Keynes. In: Vegetation management in forestry, amenity and conservation areas, University of York, April 7-9, 1992

 

Urban and community forestry in Oregon: As assessment with recommendations for initiating action

 

Bringing the forest to town

 

Policy report: Working with the community: A conceptual framework for urban forest managers

 

Urban and peri-urban annotated bibliography

 

A stand-level model of an urban forest

 

Construction of a national urban forest impact model

 

Conifer species for Iowa

 

Avoiding tree and utility conflicts

 

Urban soil in landscape design

 

Don't top trees

 

Power lines and trees

 

Fulton County tree preservation ordinance: administrative guidelines for tree protection and landscaping, Fulton County, Georgia. Revised

 

Recycling the urban forest

 

Tree roots and foundations

 

Opportunities to increase urban forests and the potential impacts on carbon storage and conservation